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Publication date: 10 August 2018

Joanne L. Keeling and Catherine McQuarrie

A Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being Working Model (subsequently “the model”) was developed in response to recognition through teaching undergraduate nursing students that…

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Purpose

A Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being Working Model (subsequently “the model”) was developed in response to recognition through teaching undergraduate nursing students that interventions aimed at enhancing mental health and well-being are often hidden or cloaked in traditional professional specific working interventions. The model was developed with the purpose of making the elements of mental health and well-being promotion visible and structuring them into a framework to aid working practice and personal development. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness from the participant perspective of using the model to enhance clients’ mental health and well-being in community settings (Keeling and McQuarrie, 2014).

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 14 participants were interviewed within two focus groups. Five questions were posed to the participants structured around their experiences of using the model when working with clients in the community. The responses were recorded and transcribed and then categorised using a thematic analysis approach.

Findings

Three key themes were derived from the analysis in equal measure: “Reconciling a Non-traditional approach”, “Promoting a holistic approach” and “Developing creativity and sense of empowerment to promote mental health and well-being”. The findings suggest that using the model enabled participants to engage with clients in meaningful ways that in turn developed their self-confidence in helping clients develop creative strategies to promote their own mental health and well-being.

Originality/value

This paper shows that using a structured model to promote well-being and mental health has benefits in enhancing creativity, therapeutic relationships and knowledge base. Further research is needed in terms of the utility of the model from the client’s perspective.

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Journal of Public Mental Health, vol. 17 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5729

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Publication date: 13 June 2016

John Hutchinson and Vicky Dunn

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of the community-based individual risk mitigation profile (IRMP) and to examine its effectiveness for people who have an…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of the community-based individual risk mitigation profile (IRMP) and to examine its effectiveness for people who have an intellectual disability, and are at risk of offending, through the use of a case study.

Design/methodology/approach

Case study and literature review.

Findings

The tool has been found to be useful and accessible by clinicians. It has a particular focus on joint sharing of opinion on risk and decision making in a structured and contained multi-disciplinary forum, that is evidence-based and defensible. This multi-disciplinary approach meets recommendations in best practice in relation to risk.

Research limitations/implications

A current limitation is that the IRMP has not been evaluated for reliability and validity, though a research study is being planned.

Originality/value

The paper highlights the usefulness of a community-based risk profile assessment and linked risk mitigation process.

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Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, vol. 7 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-8824

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Publication date: 1 June 2003

Morna S.Y. Lee, Peter J. McGoldrick, Kathleen A. Keeling and Joanne Doherty

Telecommunications companies world‐wide are developing 3G mobile phones and applications. In the UK, mobile banking is considered to be one of the most value‐added and important…

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Telecommunications companies world‐wide are developing 3G mobile phones and applications. In the UK, mobile banking is considered to be one of the most value‐added and important mobile services available. However, the adoption rate of using 3G mobile phones for financial services is yet to be determined. The current research examined both innovative attributes and customers’ perceived risk in order to understand customers’ behaviour and motivation toward this innovation. It has advanced the theoretical frameworks of innovation and customers’ risk perception as new attributes and risk dimensions were identified. The findings provide banking executives with a better understanding of what are the perceived advantages and disadvantages of 3G mobile banking services, helping them to plan marketing strategies and promotion approaches for 3G mobile banking services in the future.

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International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, vol. 31 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-0552

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Publication date: 1 February 1978

The most obvious symptom of the most obvious trend in the building of new libraries is the fact that, as yet, no spade has entered the ground of the site on Euston Road, London…

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The most obvious symptom of the most obvious trend in the building of new libraries is the fact that, as yet, no spade has entered the ground of the site on Euston Road, London, upon which the new building for the British Library Reference Division has to be erected. Some twenty years of continued negotiation and discussion finally resulted in the choice of this site. The UK and much more of the world awaits with anticipation what could and should be the major building library of the twentieth century. The planning and design of a library building, however large or small, is, relatively speaking, a major operation, and deserves time, care and patience if the best results are to be produced.

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Library Review, vol. 27 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 8 May 2017

Zilia Iskoujina, Malgorzata Ciesielska, Joanne Roberts and Feng Li

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the definitions, dimensions, and classifications of online communities together with their potential to produce value for business…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the definitions, dimensions, and classifications of online communities together with their potential to produce value for business. Those value options are then discussed in the context of empirical vignettes showing examples of business models focussed on one of the two potential benefits coming from online communities – clear financial gains and intangible long-run returns.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper uses systematic literature review method. In total, 67 academic paper in the area of business and management were chosen for the analysis.

Findings

The literature review shows multitude of online communities definitions and classifications, but hardly any comprehensive attempt to map the phenomena in full. This paper is looking into recognising potential revenue streams from online businesses and other non-financial benefits that can be combined to create strong and sustainable value proposition.

Originality/value

Drawing on the literature reviewed a novel categorisation of the commercial opportunities offered by the online communities is presented. These opportunities are discussed in a context of business model design.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 30 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0953-4814

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Publication date: 25 January 2011

Joanne F. Travaglia, Deborah Debono, Allan D. Spigelman and Jeffrey Braithwaite

This paper aims to explore the development of the concept of clinical governance as an international approach to addressing quality and safety issues in healthcare.

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Purpose

This paper aims to explore the development of the concept of clinical governance as an international approach to addressing quality and safety issues in healthcare.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors reviewed and analysed published clinical governance abstracts from 1966 to 2009. Citations were identified through a systematic search of Medline, Embase and CINAHL databases. A time series analysis was undertaken on the citations. The contents of the abstracts were then examined using an automated data‐mining software package in order to identify underlying concepts.

Findings

A total of 2,000 publications which made direct mention of clinical governance were identified across the 43‐year search period. All were produced after 1998. This was when the concept was first seriously mobilised. Of the 2,000 citations, 2.3 per cent were published in 1998 and 6.3 per cent in 2008 (the last complete year available). The peak was reached in 2003, when 12.7 per cent of all clinical governance citations were published. The years 1998 to 2003 accounted for 59.2 per cent of all citations (to September 2009). There has been a steady decrease in the number of citations making direct reference to clinical governance since 2003.

Originality/value

This paper maps the development and peak of clinical governance as a mobilising concept in healthcare in the late twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries and shows how its conceptual underpinnings have been taken up by wider quality and safety agendas. Fads and fashions rise and fall in healthcare, as in other areas of life.

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Clinical Governance: An International Journal, vol. 16 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1477-7274

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Publication date: 30 October 2009

Joanne F. Travaglia and Jeffrey Braithwaite

This paper aims to analyse the development of patient safety as a field within which patients are peripheral stakeholders.

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Purpose

This paper aims to analyse the development of patient safety as a field within which patients are peripheral stakeholders.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors examined the patient safety movement from the perspective of a field in which agents struggle for control over various forms of capital, including economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital. In order to undertake this analysis the authors drew on the literature on errors and patient safety, key inquiries into patient safety, and research conducted with health professionals in New South Wales, Australia.

Findings

The patient safety movement has created a heightened sense of awareness of errors and risk across health systems, thereby attracting and creating significant amounts of capital. The authors argue that in the process of struggle to constitute and contain a new field of health, patients and their narratives are rendered vulnerable to appropriation and incorporation.

Research limitations/implications

By considering patient safety from a sociological rather than a technical framework, it is possible to gain new insights into why reducing the levels of medical errors have proven so difficult.

Practical implications

Improved knowledge of how patient safety operates as a field may contribute to more effective strategies in reducing those types of errors.

Originality/value

Despite the growth in the number of publications in patient safety there has been only minimal analysis of the field itself, rather than its technical or organisational components. This paper contributes to a new way of conceptualising and enacting patient safety, one that acknowledges the vulnerability of the parties involved, particularly patients.

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Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 23 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1477-7266

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